Wednesday, August 4, 2010

ANYBODY WANT A PEANUT? HitFix's Drew McWeeny sits down with Rob Reiner for a career retrospective interview. Much talk of The Princess Bride and Stand By Me (and what it was like working with the original authors of both), of seeing and developing Aaron Sorkin's talents, the state of the film industry, and what it was like to cast Fezzik:
[It's] not like you throw a stick out and you hit 50 giants. I mean there’s not that many giants in the world. So, basically when we started this, Bill Goldman said that Andre’s the only one who can play this part. He said you’ve got to get Andre the Giant.
Sadly, I think it's now fifteen years (The American President) since Reiner directed a good film. Still, worthy interview.